A New Deal for the arts
By: by Bruce I. Bustard.
Contributors: United States. National Archives and Records Administration.
Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration in association with the University of Washington Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Federal Art Project -- Catalogs.; Federal aid to the arts -- United States -- Catalogs.; New Deal, 1933-1939.
Description: During the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s and into the early years of World War II, the federal government, as one of its efforts to employ some of the millions of Americans then without work, supported the arts in unprecedented ways. For 11 years, between 1933 and 1943, federal tax dollars employed artists, musicians, actors, writers, photographers, and dancers. Never before or since has our government so extensively sponsored the arts.

This book, based on a 1997 exhibit at the National Archives and Records Administration, tells the story of these short-lived, but remarkable, cultural endeavors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 129) and index.
Catalog based on an exhibition at the National Archives, Washington, DC, Mar. 28, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998.